How to Know if You Can Trust the Quality of Your Painting Service
Hiring a painting service isn’t a decision to take lightly. As a customer, your goal is to achieve the best and longest-lasting results for the least amount of time and money. With so many residential and commercial painting companies vying for your business, you must do your due diligence screening candidates and comparing estimates. Ultimately, you want to work with a partner you can trust to get the job done right. Here are some important ways to ensure you can trust the quality of a particular painting provider.
How to Ensure You Trust Your Painting Service
Check Their Credentials
There’s only so much you can do to test a painter’s knowledge and experience, especially if you’re not well-versed in these matters. This is where accreditation comes in handy. External entities such as the Better Business Bureau and Angie’s List provide credentials and awards to worthy service providers based on various factors created and judged by industry professionals. In other words, these accreditation companies do the work of assessing a painter’s merit for you. While it’s still important to dig deeper into a potential candidate and their work, checking their credentials (and whether they’re licensed and insured) is a gateway to gauging their quality.
Peruse Their Portfolio
As visual creatures, we benefit greatly from seeing clear examples of a painter’s previous work. Ideally, the candidates you’re considering will have plenty of before & after pictures on their website and/or social media profiles to show off their quality of work. Take the time to browse these images to get a sense of what a given provider might do for your property. While examples of past work don’t guarantee the same results in the future, they at least suggest something about the contractor’s ability and commitment to quality.
Read Reviews
While pictures sometimes say more than mere words, there is still plenty of value to derive from customer reviews and testimonials. After all, a single image won’t tell you anything about the preparation process, project duration, level of customer service, or other important details. Well-written reviews, however, can paint a complete picture of a residential painting provider’s process. If you want to know whether you can trust the quality of a painting company, carefully read a handful (or more) of reviews across the spectrum (i.e., negative, neutral, positive) to see what you can take away before making a decision.
Ask Questions
There can be no trust without transparent communication. One of the best ways to get a sense of a painter’s qualifications and quality is to ask them thorough questions. The most reliable painters will get back to you quickly and provide detailed responses to any questions or concerns you may have. And if they can’t answer a certain question, they’ll be upfront about it (rather than making something up to please you). It’s also a good idea to ask previous customers questions about their experience with a given painting company for a more candid review than you might find online.
Consider Their Range of Services
Some painting services do more than merely paint exterior and interior surfaces. High-quality providers tend to include various preparation, repair, and maintenance services as well, such as power washing, light carpentry, floor sealing, caulking, and more. While a broad range of services doesn’t necessarily say anything about a company’s level of quality, it does suggest something about their expertise -- simply put, inexperienced painters might not have the skills or resources to offer so many additional services. Moreover, it’s more convenient to hire one service that can handle multiple tasks as opposed to hiring several contractors.
Remember: Cost Isn’t Everything
Lastly, while you don’t want to bankrupt yourself for a painting project, you also don’t want to sacrifice quality just to save a buck. As tempting as it may be to hire Raleigh house painters with the lowest estimate, you might not be able to trust their quality as much as another provider that will charge a bit more. Low-cost painters often offer such low prices because they’re less experienced, using lower-quality products, and/or merely trying to undercut the competition due to a lack of demand for their services. Either way, it’s often worth dishing out more for a reputable painting service, so you can rest assured that you’ll get the results you’re looking for and that those results will last a long time.
At Anderson Painting, our various credentials, such as the BBB Torch Award, Angie’s List Super Service Award, and Summit Safety Certification, speak for themselves, as do our testimonials and portfolio of work in the North Carolina Triangle and surrounding areas. We’re always happy to answer any questions you may have about our process, team, values, offerings, and more. To learn more about us and all we do, call today at 919-610-1855 or email us at info@andersonpaintingnc.com!
